“Where body language conflicts with the words that are being said, the body language will usually be the more 'truthful' in the sense of revealing true feelings.”
“Where body language is giving mixed signals (eg. a smile that borders on a grimace or fails to involve the eyes) then the more negative, less socially desirable component is usually the more telling. This is because we are more often motivated to conceal unpleasant truths and anti-social feelings than pleasant, benign ones.”
“The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.”
“The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.”
“Body language is a very powerful tool... 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.”
“To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.”